A CARVED LACQUER FOUR-DRAWER CABINET

19TH CENTURY

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A CARVED LACQUER FOUR-DRAWER CABINET
19th Century
Decorated on a roironuri, green and red lacquer ground in tsuishu, tsuikoku style carved in low relief with a design of stylized flowerheads within a mokko pattern with surrounded stylized ho-o birds to corners, with metal handles, four shaped feet, (cracks)
13.4 x 13 x 13.6cm.

來源

Orange Collection

出版

Orange, James, Catalogue of a Small Collection of Japanese Lacquer, Made by James Orange, Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1907; reprinted Yokohama, 1910), cat. no. 84 (illustrated on p.24)

拍品專文

James Orange attributed this miniature chest to the "Zokoki" family in Sanuki. Tamakaji Zokoku of Takamatsu in Sanuki Province (1806-1869) was famous for his carved and coloured lacquer, making Orange's attribution quite plausible although it cannot be conclusively proved.